ANTH 1001 Lecture : ANTH Unit 2 Notes
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Primates popular images: most primate groups are social, chimps have close dna to humans, coco: most famous gorilla that learned sign language. Myths: not all primates are monkeys, prosimians, monkeys, apes, not just primitive humans, social, intelligent, some behaviors are complex, gorillas are herbivores, not monsters, some stereotypes are false. Primate studies: descriptive: earliest studies are very descriptive. Go out and study and record: observational: 1960s: became more observational, observational, dian fossey studied gorillas. Jane goodall one of the first to camp out in woods to study chimps machete. Buried next to best friend gorilla: gorillas are threatened/endangered, theoretical, sociobiology, socioecology. Primates: research today encompasses all three types, study or field that specializes in categorizing living organisms. Tarsiers more like anthropoids: sesame street game, orangutan most different from human, gorilla next different, chimp closest to human, human, 2. ) Reclassification of great apes: old pongidae/hominidae, new all hominidae; different subfamilies and tribes, primates are diverse group.
